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Community | The FABRIC Arts Festival explores themes of identity and place Diplomacy | U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio to visit Lisbon this week Community | PALCUS celebrates 35th Anniversary with a Leadership Awards Gala in Ponta Delgada Arts Diplomacy | President António José Seguro to meet Pope Leo XIV
 

Community | The FABRIC Arts Festival explores themes of identity and place – Fall River (MA)

The FABRIC Arts Festival, founded in 2019 and now in its seventh edition, returns to Fall River October 8–11, showcasing Portuguese contemporary art, music, performances, exhibitions, food, and storytelling, exploring themes of migration, identity, memory, belonging, and place and connections across borders. With particular significance in Fall River, historically one of America’s leading textile-manufacturing centers […]

Diplomacy | U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio to visit Lisbon this week – Portugal

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is scheduled to visit Portugal this coming week as part of a European tour from October 5–8, with Lisbon as the final stop. Secretary Rubio is expected in Lisbon on Thursday, October 8, following visits to Reykjavík, Iceland, and Athens, Greece.  He is expected to meet with Prime Minister […]

Community | PALCUS celebrates 35th Anniversary with a Leadership Awards Gala in Ponta Delgada – Azores

The Portuguese American Leadership Council of the United States (PALCUS) prepares to celebrate its 35th anniversary and 28th Annual Leadership Awards Gala on October 17 at the Coliseu Micaelense in Ponta Delgada, Azores. For the first time in the organization’s history, the PALCUS Leadership Awards Gala will be held outside the continental United States, bringing […]

Arts & Letters | Portugal Takes Center Stage at Lincoln Center – New York, NY

Portuguese culture will take center stage at New York City’s Lincoln Center on Saturday, October 3, with a full day of cinema, literature and live music featuring acclaimed Luso-American writer Katherine Vaz, Portuguese musical performances by Expresso Transatlântico and The Gift, and a festival of Portuguese animated short films. The program, titled “Contemporary Portugal at […]

Diplomacy | President António José Seguro to meet Pope Leo XIV – Vatican

Portugal’s President, António José Seguro, arrived in Rome on Wednesday, September 23, for a two-day official visit to the Holy See, with an audience with Pope Leo XIV scheduled for Thursday, September 24, at 9:00 a.m. local time at the Vatican.  The Portuguese Presidency confirms that the official visit program also includes talks with Archbishop […]

Book: Un Unwritten Novel: Fernando Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet – by Thomas J. Cousineau

29 September 2013

Thomas Cousineau, professor emeritus at Washington College, has released An Unwritten Novel: Fernando Pessoa’s The Book of the Disquiet a new book offering an insight into the work of Portuguese Modernist writer Fernando Pessoa. Published by Dalkey Archive Press, the book focuses on Pessoa’s writings collected in The Book of Disquiet published posthumously. Cousineau discovered Pessoa’s posthumous book […]

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Posted in Arts&Culture, Books, Featured, Heritage, People, Portugal, World

Book: Antidote – By José Luís Peixoto – Review

26 September 2013

By Millicent Borges Accardi, Contributor (*) José Luís Peixoto, one of Portugal’s best selling writers, was referred to by Nobel Prize writer José Saramago as “the most surprising revelation in recent Portuguese literature.” To his credit, Peixoto has published three poetry collections, four novels, a non-fiction book, and three short story collections. In 2001, he […]

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A Thousand and One Nights in Lisbon – By André Darlington

23 September 2013

By André Darlington, Contributor (*) When Candide and Pangloss arrive in Lisbon, the two just narrowly survive a shipwreck in the harbor. Then the city is promptly destroyed by an earthquake. During the mayhem Candide is injured, but instead of rushing to help him, Pangloss considers the finer points of their situation. Such is the […]

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Crisis: The pain and shame of poverty – Portugal

21 September 2013

By Len Port, Contributor (*) How times have changed in a few fractious years! An alarming number of once prosperous Portuguese have joined the so-called “embarrassed poor,” unable to afford even basic food needs and dependent on handouts. Severe austerity measures and high unemployment have caused the steady disintegration of middle class society. Poverty has […]

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Posted in Azores, Community, Featured, Heritage, Madeira, People, Politics, Portugal

Book: “Kicking the Sky”- by Anthony De Sa – Editor’s Note

21 September 2013

On a steamy summer day in 1977, Emanuel Jaques was shining shoes in downtown Toronto. Surrounded by the strip clubs, bars and body rub parlors of Yonge Street, Emanuel was lured away from his friends by a man who promised some easy money. Four days later the boy’s body was discovered. He had been brutally […]

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Lourinhã: Rare upper jurassic dinosaur skeleton found – Portugal

20 September 2013

A rare dinosaur skeleton and one of the oldest in the world has been discovered in the south of Lourinhã, Portugal, about 70 km north of Lisbon. Identified by Portuguese paleontologist Octávio Mateus, the remains under study appear to be of a coelurosaur, a rare relatively small carnivorous dinosaur, less than two meters long, from 150 […]

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